Charlie James wrote: > Hi, Guys > > 192MB of RAM, sorry but XP and any of its programs require a minimum of > 256MB of RAM and that is the minimum. You will have to upgrade to at > least 512MB. Also, since this appears to be an older machine you will > find that some of your older hardware and the drivers will not function > well with XP, especially if you try to install SP2. Charlie, I know her RAM needs to have the RAM upgraded. Functionality, is not, a big thing on her PC. She is not technologically adept so, I am the one making the changes.
> Also, Windows uses both RAM and the HDD for swap space. It uses more of > the hard drive when you have little RAM. I suspect that because it can > not load it all into RAM for installation it tries to copy to the swap > area of the hard drive. Even tho you have a large free space on the > drive the settings for the swap (if it were anything but 98) can not > handle the disparity and thus gives you the canned response of not > enough hard drive space. True > I suspect you don't have XP O/S installed either but maybe 98 which > Office XP does not particularly like anyway... I have XP Home on her PC. > Sorry, but you should try a newer system. They have some really good > sales out there ... I know. > If you want to run Office XP then install Windows 2000 Pro or XP Pro on > a system with a minimum of 1.2 mhz of CPU, 512 MB of RAM (1gig > preferred) and a hard drive with a minimum of 100Gig space. I have it on mine: OS: XP Pro CPU: Intel Mhz: 960 RAM: 512MB FD: 3.5 HD HH HD: 18.3GB HH SCSI HDC: AHA-19160 NIC: Linksys LNE100TX VC: ATI VGA Wonder Res: 1280x1024 VD: Viewsonic E655 Audio: SoundBlaster Live! Speakers: Logitech 400W(RMS) > Mimimum to run anything made for Windows 2000/XP Pro, etc. An older > system you describe is just not enough for those software packages. I know but, I have to tweak it. > All the defrag, etc in the world will not open it up enough for you to > install. Even if you managed a minimum it will barely run and then slow > your system down to a crawl, i.e. go to dinner out and it might be > loaded when you get back. I know, she doesn't understand the stuff. Christopher -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.4 - Release Date: 12/22/2004 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/67folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
